Year: 2015

Mail.com

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S.-Mexico border is one of the world’s most fortified international divides. Starting Wednesday, it will also be one of the only that has an airport straddling two countries.

An investor group that includes Chicago billionaire Sam Zell built a sleek terminal in San Diego with a bridge that crosses a razor-wire border fence to Tijuana’s decades-old airport. Passengers pay $18 to walk a 390-foot overpass to Tijuana International Airport, a springboard about 30 Mexican destinations.   Continue reading “California newest airport terminal extends to Mexico”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton on Wednesday will unveil a proposal for a new “exit tax” aimed at cracking down on corporate inversions, a practice that permits U.S. companies to merge with corporations overseas to lower their tax bill.

The new tax would be part of a broader effort to target what experts say is roughly $2 trillion in profits U.S. companies are hoarding abroad to reduce their taxes. The Democratic presidential front-runner will propose spending the revenue raised by the new tax to boost manufacturing jobs in the U.S., campaign aides said. They spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the official campaign announcement.  Continue reading “Clinton offers new ‘exit tax’ on US-foreign company mergers”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

Congress is once again declaring its willingness to hold everyone in the nation accountable for their actions, present party excepted.

Back in 2011, it was revealed that members of Congress were participating in insider trading. Spending a great deal of time conversing with lobbyists tends to result in the discussion of information that has yet to be made public. Legislators, being the opportunists they are, chose to buy and sell stock based on this insider info. Lobbyists — also opportunists — sometimes did the same thing. And it was all perfectly legal… at least for Congress.    Continue reading “Congress Still Fighting SEC’s Investigation Of Alleged Insider Trading By Its Members”

Jon Rappoport

Warning: this article is an emotional trigger about emotional triggers…

“Conceive of it this way. Far up in the sky you have people, individuals, who are inventing the fulfillment of their most profound desires, making them fact in the world, no matter what—and way down below, miles under the earth, you have other individuals who could be doing what the sky dwellers are, but they’ve bamboozled themselves into thinking they can’t. Instead, they think they’re trapped in every little response they might have to any old stimulus that comes along. Both groups of people are creative, but they’ve channeled their imaginations and creativity in vastly different ways. Waking up may be hard to do, but you either do or you don’t.” (Notes for Exit From The Matrix, Jon Rappoport)   Continue reading “Syed Farook And The New World Of Emotional “Triggers””

RT

PM Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned the statement of Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom who had earlier claimed that Israel resorted to unlawful killings of Palestinians involved in the ongoing wave of violence.

“The response [to Palestinian stabbing and car-ramming attacks] must not be of the kind – and this is what I say in other situations where the response is such that it results in extrajudicial executions or is disproportionate in that the number of people killed on that side exceeds the original number of deaths many times over,” Wallstrom said on Friday addressing Swedish lawmakers.   Continue reading “Israel fumes after Swedish FM slams ‘extrajudicial executions’ of Palestinians in ongoing violence”

Eagle Rising – by Onan Coca

On a Friday a couple of weeks ago, parents in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin were surprised to learn that their children would be forced to sit under transgender training in their local elementary school. The parents learned that the district would be allowing transgender activists to indoctrinate their children on sexuality just one school day later (the following Monday), and if the parents were concerned they should contact the district (which would of course be closed over the weekend).   Continue reading “Parents Stop School District from Pushing Transgender Confusion on 6-Year Olds!”

Reuters

The White House is urging Silicon Valley to help address the threat posed by militant groups by restricting the use of social media for planning and promoting violence, a senior administration official said on Sunday.

Last week’s mass shooting in California has moved cyber defense against extremists to center stage in Washington.   Continue reading “Obama urges tech, law enforcement to address social media used for plots”

Washington Post

The Justice Department plans to launch an investigation into the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police Department, a wide-ranging review similar to those that scrutinized the police departments in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore, according to several law enforcement officials.

The civil probe, which the officials say could be announced early this week, comes as Chicago continues to grapple with protests after the release of a video showing the police shooting of Laquan McDonald, which prompted murder charges for the officer involved and the resignation of the city’s police chief. The Justice Department is already investigating the McDonald shooting, but this new investigation by the department’s civil rights division would focus on the police department’s practices broadly to determine whether any of them contribute to civil rights violations.   Continue reading “Justice Department will investigate practices of Chicago police”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

On December 3 Politico reported that while Obama is pushing for more gun laws when the cameras are rolling, behind the scenes aides say he has “essentially given up on any significant gun control.”

They reported a similar situation among some of the most prominent gun control groups – a situation in which they are pushing gun control publicly while “leaders of the groups grumble” privately because the White House seems to be all talk, no action on gun control.   Continue reading “Presidential Aides: Obama Has ‘Essentially Given Up on Any Significant’ Gun Control”

Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas

SAN BERNARDINO, Calf. (INTELLIHUB) — A few interesting details have surfaced regarding Wednesday’s mass shooting dubbed ‘terror attack’ which killed 14 and injured 17 others. One of the most interesting comes from an eyewitness.

We now know that ATF investigators recovered police issued firearms from the alleged shooters. This key detail was leaked by 2016 GOP Presidential Candidate Carly Fiorina during a press interview after she had overheard a newsroom report that doesn’t fit the official narrative.   Continue reading “Eyewitness to terror attack: ‘Three tall white men did it’”

The Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause

I remember after the Sandy Hook shooting, when states like New York and Connecticut passed laws that would force their gun owning residents to register some of their firearms. At the time I thought that was a little absurd. Not knowing any better, I just assumed that the government already knew exactly what kinds of firearms I owned. After all, don’t they do a background check for every purchase? And isn’t that why firearms have serial numbers?   Continue reading “The Federal Government is Maintaining an Illegal Registry of Gun Owners”

Jonathan Cook

The National – 6 December 2015

Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media.

Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, headed off to Silicon Valley to meet senior executives at Google and its subsidiary YouTube late last month. Her task was to persuade them that, for the sake of peace, they must censor the growing number of Palestinian videos posted on YouTube.   Continue reading “Israel’s cynical approach is feeding unrest”

Terrorist Security Administration

The data (“the Data”) displayed herein is provided “as is” with no warranty whatsoever, neither express nor implied, and no claims are made regarding its accuracy, veracity, or suitability. Inclusion of persons in the Data does not imply or allege their participation in terrorist activities. The Data is intended to be used for reference purposes only, and should not be relied upon as the sole determining factor of an individual’s participation or non-participation in terrorist activities. All persons are presumed innocent until proven otherwise.   Continue reading “Search the TSA No-Fly List”

BATR, July 11, 2010

The Disunited States of America is no longer a country of national union. From the inception of the U.S. Constitution, factions continually vied for power. Yet there was a blueprint of basic precepts generally accepted as the law of the land. The appearance of legitimacy was shattered a century and half ago, that foretold the “War of Northern Aggression”. The American Revolution permanently betrayed is but a memory of past glories. The rule of law now relegated to an exhibit in a wax museum.   Continue reading “A Banana Republic Ripe for a Coup d’état”